Year 2000 on Vax 504C...

[Michael C. Lee]

Thanks Bob-that's what I wanted to hear.

Michael Lee
MCL Systems Inc.



Deskin, Bob wrote:

> The specific problem on OpenVMS is that if your default century in the
> dictionary is 19, then the SYSDATE value after Feb 28, 2000 is 1 greater
> than it should be. On Dec 31, 2000 you get an invalid date. The
> workaround is to make the default century 20, however that is not always
> practical. And although this seems like a small thing, it's serious
> enough to affect data (as opposed to a cosmetic problem) and therefore
> make PowerHouse on OpenVMS non-compliant. This is what was fixed in
> 7.10.F2 and up.
>
> Bob Deskin
> Senior Product Advisor  bob.deskin@cognos.com
> Cognos Inc.             (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
> 3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Michael C. Lee[SMTP:mclsys@home.com]
> > Sent:         Friday, July 24, 1998 12:11 PM
> > To:   powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> > Subject:      Year 2000 on Vax 504C...
> >
> > I am currently doing a YTK project for a client running Powerhouse
> > 504C
> > on the Vax. Yes you read that right: Powerhouse 504C on the Vax. From
> > the version number you can see that they gave up on Powerhouse about
> > 6-8
> > years ago. Oddly enough they still have 3 systems in place that they
> > require YTK conversion (they left for the sweet-young-thing down the
> > block but still come home for dinner!). Anyway enough of my bigamy, I
> > mean bigotry.
> >
> > I've been reading how how previous versions of Powerhouse such as 710E
> > is not Year 2000 compliant never mind 504C. My question is what does
> > this mean? In testing I changed the dictionary to be century included
> > with a default century of '20' and was able to enter dates without any
> > problems-including 2000/02/29. What actual problems should I be on the
> > lookout for or does changing the size of date fields from 6 to 8 (as
> > has
> > been suggested here) resolve most potential problems?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Michael Lee
> > MCL Systems Inc.
> >
> >
> >
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